 A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then...  Madame de Sévigné and Her Contemporaries - Page 2091841Full view - About this book
 | Francis Parkman - 1991 - 1012 pages
...heads toward Fort Laramie, then about seven hundred miles to the westward. Chapter V. THE 'BIG BLUE.' "A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but...mankind's epitome, Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was even' thing by starts, and nothing long, But in the space of one revolving moon, Was gamester,... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...Duke of Buckingham who 'made the whole body of vice his study'] A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1994 - 450 pages
...whenever he was out of her sight. He, even more than the statesman portrayed in Dryden's poem, was A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Needless to say, a temperament like this is sometimes disconcerting to its possessor. In his... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 368 pages
...resolution, he prosecuted his journey to London. CHAPTER XXVIII A man so various, that he teem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions — -always in the -wrong — Was every thing by starts, but nothing long ; Who, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist,... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 220 pages
...unless the sarcasm is directed towards oneself and turned into a form of victim humor. Satire (language) A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but...mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, statesman,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2, I. 77-80 (1609). Inconsistency 1 A man so various, that he seemed tobe Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 pages
...numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. 1 1 88 Absalom and Achitophel A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but...mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. 3026 Absalom and Achitophel ine opinlons, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one... | |
 | Rose A. Zimbardo - 1998 - 222 pages
...Ramble in St. James's Park" or in the Bayes's dance confusion of The Plain Dealer's Whitehall. Zimri, A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. [545-546] is not a "self" but a kaleidoscope of splintered fragments. The portrait sounds... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...hence alchemy and chemistry; see au I. As Dryden described many of us in Absalom and Achitophel (1681), A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but...mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler,... | |
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